Huckabee the Huckster

Mike Huckabee isn’t just an accomplice to the rape and murders of Carol Sue Shields and Sara Andrasek, he’s an anti-gay bigot whose latest bevy of lies is focused on his statements about AIDS victims. Steve Bennen takes him to task for his dishonesty:

By any reasonable standard, Huckabee’s comments were ridiculous and offensive, but at least for his sake they were made 15 years ago. Now, as a presidential candidate, he has an obvious course to take — claim ignorance and explain how far his understanding has progressed since 1992… There’s no shame in saying, “What I believed 15 years ago was mistaken.” For goodness sakes, Mitt Romney routinely suggests, “What I believed 15 minutes ago was mistaken.” Huckabee can’t even concede making a mistake when it’s this obvious?

…So far, he’s shown he can’t take the heat. Pressed on the Wayne Dumond disaster, Huckabee has taken to lying about what transpired. Pressed on the NIE, he dismisses reasonable inquiries about major news as “gotcha questions.” Confronted with obvious stupidity from 1992, he doesn’t know how to distance himself from his own mistakes.